The Small Tortoiseshell is one of our most common and widespread butterflies. The pattern of creamy-yellows, foxy-oranges, and black on the insect’s wings reminded the person who first named the ...

One of Britain's best-loved butterflies has suffered a "quite frightening" decline in numbers this summer. The numbers of the small tortoiseshell - one of Britain's most recognisable and widespread - ...

Species including the small tortoiseshell suffered their worst year ever, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme said (Iain H Leach/PA) More than half of UK butterfly species are now in long-term decline, ...

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Small tortoiseshell butterfly numbers have declined 86% since the 1970s (Alamy/PA) Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate ...

Pesticides that were scrutinized for harming bees may be contributing to the decline of the butterfly population, a new study shows. Scientists blame neonicotinoids or anti-sap-feeding insect ...

Good news! The Large Tortoiseshell butterfly is thriving once again in the UK, after new sightings in Portland, Dorset, confirm that the species is resident. Over the past 70 years, sightings of the ...

I SEE in more than one daily paper of this morning's date a paragraph announcing the appearance of a small tortoiseshell butterfly in Highgate Police Court yesterday as something unusual.

THE male small tortoiseshell butterfly is fiercely defensive: throw a stick nearby and it leaps up like a Labrador retriever to attack it. The aptly named dingy skipper is the ugliest butterfly ...